Informed Comment - Part 1738

The Chapel Hill Shootings & the Troubling Growth of Anti-Muslim Intolerance

By Charles Kurzman | (ISLAMiCommentary) | – People from throughout the Triangle filled the UNC-Chapel Hill Pit Wednesday for the vigil for Deah Shaddy Barakat, […]

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Climate Change

Keystone of Corruption: The Money Pipeline from Big Oil to Congress

By Kitty Stapp NEW YORK (IPS) – With battle lines sharpening over the stalled Keystone XL pipeline, a new analysis details the intense industry lobbying […]

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Entertainment

The Daily Show was never ‘real’ news – but came (depressingly) close

Julia Fox, Indiana University | (The Conversation) Jon Stewart’s Tuesday night announcement that he’ll be leaving the Daily Show garnered an audible cry of disbelief […]

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Featured

‘Lone Wolf,’ ‘Self-Radicalized’: Islamophobic Buzzwords never applied to White Terrorists

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Did a self-radicalized lone wolf white terrorist kill three young Muslim students in cold blood in Chapel Hill? […]

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African-Americans

Old White Men Dominate Sunday Political Shows Yet Again

MediaMatters4America | – [A study of the Sunday political television shows demonstrates that 87% of the single-person interviews are done with white males, and 66% […]

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Apartheid

Israel earmarks vast area of Palestinian Hebron/ al-Khalil land for annexation

HEBRON (Ma’an) — Israel has earmarked around 2,000 dunams (500 acres) of private Palestinian land for annexation in the Hebron district, local activists say. Muhammad […]

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